theme

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English

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• Rhymes: -iːm

Etymology

From Old French tesme (French: thème), from Latin thema, from Ancient Greek θέμα (théma), from τίθημι (tithemi, “I put, place”), reduplicative from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place, do”) (whence also English do).

Noun

theme (plural themes)

1. a subject of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
2. a recurring idea; a motif.
3. (music) the main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
4. (computing, figuratively) The collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc., that "skin" an environment towards a particular motif.
5. (grammar) stem of a word
6. (linguistics) thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb
7. (linguistics) theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
8. (linguistics) topic, what is being talked about, as opposed to rheme
9. A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.

Related terms

• thema
• thematic
• theme music
• theme park
• theme song
• theme tune

Translations

subject of a talk or an artistic piece

Arabic: موضوع (ar) (mawDuu3) m. Azeri: mövzu (az) Chinese: Mandarin: 主題 (zh), 主题 (zh) (zhǔtí) Czech: téma (cs) f. Finnish: aihe (fi) French: thème (fr) m. German: Thema (de) n. Hebrew: נושא (he) Japanese: 主題 (ja) (しゅだい, shudai), テーマ (ja) (tēma)

Korean: 주제 (ko) (juje) (主題 (ko)), 테마 (ko) (tema) Luxembourgish: Thema (lb) Malay: tema (ms) Persian: موضوع (fa) (mowzu) Romanian: temă (ro) Romansch: tema (rm) m. Russian: тема (ru) (téma) f. Spanish: tema (es) m. Vietnamese: chủ đề (vi) (主題 (vi))

recurring idea

Finnish: teema (fi), aihe (fi)

Japanese: 主題 (ja) (しゅだい, shudai)

music: main melody of a piece of music

Finnish: teema (fi)

Japanese: テーマ (ja) (tēma), 主題曲 (ja) (しゅだいきょく, shudaikyoku)

computing: collection of color schemes, sounds, artwork etc.

Japanese: テーマ (ja) (tēma)

grammar: stem of a word

Finnish: vartalo (fi)

linguistics: thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb

linguistics: theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory

linguistics: topic, that is being talked about

Finnish: aihe (fi), puheenaihe (fi)

regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire

Hungarian: thema (hu)

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Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: موضوع (mauɖú:ʕ) Armenian: թեմա Serbo-Croatian: tema (bs) f. Mandarin: 主題, 主题 (zhǔtí), 題材, 题材 (tícái) Serbo-Croatian: tema (hr) f. Dutch: thema (nl) n. Esperanto: temo (eo) French: thème (fr) m. Georgian: თემა (t‘ema) German: Thema (de) n., Motiv (de) n. Greek: θέμα (el) (théma) n. Hebrew: עצם (he) Hindi: प्रकरण Hungarian: tárgy (hu), téma (hu) Italian: tema (it) m.

Korean: 주제 (juje) Latin: thema (la) m. Latvian: tēma Lithuanian: tema (lt) Mongolian: сэдэв (sêdêv) Norwegian: tema (no) Persian: موضوع (fa) Portuguese: tema (pt) m. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тема f. Roman: tema f. Spanish: tema (es) m. Swedish: tema (sv) Thai: แก่นเรื่อง (gàen rêuang) Turkish: konu (tr)